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Program Specialist, Research

Geplaatst 26 mrt. 2024
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2 tot 5 jaar
Full-time / part-time
Full-time
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Soort opleiding
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Engels (Vloeiend)

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At DeepMind, we value diversity of experience, knowledge, backgrounds and perspectives and harness these qualities to create extraordinary impact. We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of sex, race, religion or belief, ethnic or national origin, disability, age, citizenship, marital, domestic or civil partnership status, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy or related condition (including breastfeeding) or any other basis as protected by applicable law. If you have a disability or additional need that requires accommodation, please do not hesitate to let us know.

Snapshot

DeepMind has a remarkable track record of scientific breakthroughs. Such extraordinary work is a direct result of the brilliant and diverse people we bring together. Our Operations team work together to maintain, optimise, and nurture our culture to create the best environment in the world for advancing AI research. A place where everyone’s expertise is recognised and where everyone is continually learning and supported to be the best leaders, managers, and collaborators they can be.

About Us

We’re a dedicated scientific community, committed to “solving intelligence” and ensuring our technology is used for widespread public benefit.

We’ve built a supportive and inclusive environment where collaboration is encouraged and learning is shared freely. We don’t set limits based on what others think is possible or impossible. We drive ourselves and inspire each other to push boundaries and achieve ambitious goals.

We constantly iterate on our workplace experience with the goal of ensuring it encourages a balanced life. From excellent office facilities through to extensive manager support, we strive to support our people and their needs as effectively as possible.

Our list of benefits is extensive, and we’re happy to discuss this further throughout the interview process.

The role

Our Program Management team consists of Team Coordinators, Program Associates, Program Specialists and Program Managers working across both research and engineering teams.

There are three core strands to this role: planning and leading projects, enabling teams, and domain knowledge; understanding AGI research.

  • Key responsibilities:
  • Support the team with all required elements of end-to-end project planning and delivery, using your knowledge of project methodologies including tools and techniques such as stand ups, retrospectives, agile boards, project plans, etc.
  • Work with your team to organise and optimise research into clear goals and objectives.
  • Facilitate conversations, meetings and opportunities for collaboration to drive the best outcomes; create connections and relationships.
  • Track progress, maintain up to date information and relevant technical documentation, anticipate and propose solutions to issues and risks.
  • Identify opportunities to improve ways of working, tools or processes.
  • You’ll support your team to pre-empt requirements such as technical dependencies or the need for compute power.
  • Provide coaching for individuals to overcome challenges and ensure the conditions are in place to enable teams to produce pioneering and mission focused work.
  • Lead brainstorms and idea sharing, help to identify key themes, simplify complex problems and discover solutions.\
  • Support the drive for engagement across the team by building and maintaining relationships, sharing constructive feedback, challenging established ways of thinking and inspiring them to achieve their full potential.
  • Evaluate the success of programs against their aims, goals and objectives.
  • Demonstrate a curious mindset and a commitment to learning and understanding your teams technical field, and your broader understanding of AGI, in order to inform how you enable people, teams and optimise research.

About you

In order to set you up for success as a Program Specialist at DeepMind, we look for the following skills and experience:

  • Knowledge and expertise in project/program management with the skill to navigate through ambiguity and adjust and adapt plans and strategies as project conditions change
  • Experience supporting teams to deliver projects
  • Experience in solving complex challenges, implementing scalable and sustainable solutions
  • Knowledge and experience in utilising coaching techniques to support individuals from diverse backgrounds in a high performing environment
  • Strong communication skills, ability to develop meaningful relationships with key stakeholders and leverage these to influence action and outcomes
  • Experience supporting teams in fast-paced and constantly changing environments, acting as a sounding board as individuals go through the change cycle and supporting during challenging times
  • You are passionate about solving AGI, proactive about learning and acquiring knowledge to enhance your domain knowledge
  • Knowledge and familiarity with technical concepts such as information theory, mathematics, technical architectures, statistics, computer science, machine learning or reinforcement learning is an advantage but not an essential requirement

Artificial intelligence could be one of humanity's most useful inventions. DeepMind aims to build advanced AI to expand our knowledge and find new answers. By solving this one thing, we believe we could help people solve thousands of problems.

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